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NOTES 1. The recorded crime statistics contain details of notifiable offences which are recorded by the police. The coverage and more details of the series of notifiable offences can be found in Chapter 2 (which gives figures for 1987-1997) and Appendices 2 and 3 of “Criminal statistics, England and Wales, 1997” (Cm 4162). On 1 April 1998, the coverage of notifiable offences was expanded to include all indictable offences, all triable-either-way offences, and closely associated summary offences. The guidance rules issued by the Home Office to the police on how to count crime were also revised on that date. Further details of the changes, and the way in which they have affected the notifiable offence series, are shown in Annex A. 2. A large proportion of crime is unrecorded, as many offences are not reported to the police. The propensity of the public to report offences to the police changes over time, and is related to various factors. These include actions of the insurance industry, which in some cases: - require offences to be reported to the police before claims are considered; - relate householders’ premiums to the level of previous claims. More details on the level of reporting can be found in reports of the British Crime Survey. Results from the 1998 BCS are reported in The 1998 British Crime Survey by Catriona Mirrlees-Black, Tracey Budd, Sarah Partridge, and Pat Mayhew, (Home Office Statistical Bulletin issue 21/98), which is available from the address shown in paragraph 7 below. 3. Crimes that can be compared between the British Crime Survey and recorded crime are burglary, thefts of and from vehicles, theft of a pedal cycle, theft from the person, criminal damage, wounding and robbery. 4. The metropolitan police force areas are taken to be the Metropolitan Police District, City of London, West Midlands, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Northumbria. 5. The definition adopted by the Audit Commission for primary and secondary clear-ups has been used. The term “primary clear-up” refers to offences deemed to be cleared up by a charge, summons or caution, taken into consideration (where the crime was previously recorded) and other methods. “Secondary clear-ups” include offences taken into consideration (where the crime was not previously recorded), and 24
those which involve attributing an offence to someone already charged or convicted of another offence. 6. This bulletin has been prepared by the members of the Recorded Crime section which forms part of the Crime and Criminal Justice Unit in the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. The Crime and Criminal Justice Unit would like to acknowledge with thanks the assistance of the police force statistics officers and the Home Office Data Collection Unit in providing and collating the statistics. If you have any enquiries about the figures in this bulletin, or wish to request further analysis of the data (for which there may be a charge), you should contact David Povey or any member of his section. The address is: Crime and Criminal Justice Unit, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office, Room 843, 50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, SW1H 9AT. telephone: 020 7273 2711. 7. Additional copies of this bulletin, together with other Research, Development and Statistics Directorate publications, can be obtained by contacting: RDS Information and Publications Group, Home Office, Room 201, 50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, SW1H 9AT. telephone: 020 7273 2084. e-mail: rds.ho@gtnet.gov.uk Many RDS publications are also downloadable from our website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/publf.htm 25
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